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Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon.

Welcome to the first Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2014. Happy New Year! On this week's show we'll listen to some "chicken" songs, take a musical trip to Georgia, and celebrate the birthdays of Vincent Lopez, Ace Brigode and Jane Green. As always, simply click on the link below to listen streaming online and/or download. And your feedback, requests and topic suggestions are always welcome. This is the last Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2013, but we're looking forward to more great toe-tapping music in 2014 and beyond. Thanks for listening this past year and for your encouragement and support.

Rapidly Rotating Records Show – January 5, 2014 (128 bit mp3)

Here's the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Chicken

Chicken Supper Strut – Triangle Harmony Boys
Chicken On The Apple – Frankie Reynolds AHO
The Chicken And The Worm – Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams
Chicken Reel Stomp – The Tune Wranglers

Segment 2: Georgia 

The Georgia Stomp – Charles Fulcher AHO
Georgia Swing – Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Georgia Home – Jay Whidden and His New Midnight Follies Band

Segment 3: Vincent Lopez

Sunshine – Vincent Lopez and His Casa Lopez Orchestra / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Kiss Me By Wireless – Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra
Blue BIrd, Why Don't You Call On Me? – Vincent Lopez and His Casa Lopez Orchestra / Ed Smalle, DIck Robertson, v.

Segment 4: Ace Brigode

Yes Sir, That's My Baby – Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians
What A Smile Can Do – Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians
Normandy – Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians 

Segment 5: Jane Green

Hard To Get Gertie – Jane Green
Mine, All Mine – Jane Green
Honey Bunch – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra / Jane Green, v. 

THANKS FOR LISTENING! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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Rapidly Rotating Records is now in the lineup of YesterYear Radio at WYYR.com. RRR is heard each Tuesday evening at 10 Eastern / 7 Pacific following David Miller's "Swinging Down the Lane." Click in to WYYR.com for some great big band programming.